Built in the late 1800s, the Highland Park home of L.A. icon Charles Fletcher Lummis is now a museum. Huell learns about Lummis and tours his collection of artifacts including rare wax cylinder recordings of early California Spanish songs. On Saturday, May 7, 2016, to kick off the new season of KCET’s Artbound, an award-winning arts and culture series, the Southwest Museum Site hosted a panel discussion of the program’s upcoming debut episode on Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928), founder of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian.

Lummis died on November 25, 1928 from brain cancer.

It … Charles Fletcher Lummis … He was sixty-nine years old. Artbound revisits early Los Angeles to explore one of its key and most controversial figures: Charles Fletcher Lummis. Before the polymathic writer, editor, and preservationist would become a hyperbolic figure of Los Angeles history, he was a poet. And by many accounts, he wasn't very good. Oliver Wang. His ashes are buried within one of the walls of his home. There’s Lummis, often shirtless, at work on some craft or project or another, proud of how he looked and what he was up to. California's Gold is divided into 24 seasons of varying lengths (plus specials), comprising 443 episodes. The name he gave his homestead was El Alisal, place of the alders — or sycamores — or California sycamores.

Later, in California, Charles Lummis’ Landmarks Club projected slides of the state’s crumbling Spanish missions to build public support for their preservation.

A Tramp Across the Continent: Charles Lummis Discovers America. A feature-length documentary film currently on-hold in Los Angeles, written and … He was sixty-nine years old. Film artbound charles lummis heidi duckler heidi duckler dance theatre juan devis kcet southwest museum Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will bring its site-specific brand of immersive performance, this weekend, to the historic Southwest Museum building. Watch Artbounds season eight debut episode, Charles Lummis: Reimagining the American West, premiering Tuesday, May 10 at 9 p.m., or check for rebroadcasts here. A special video documentary about Charles Lummis by KCET television will premiere on air and online on May 10, 2016: Charles Lummis… Lummis was a writer, reporter, photographer, preservationist and city librarian who helped found the Southwest Museum, according to the Los Angeles Times.

In this new season, Artbound travels back to pre-industrial Los Angeles to explore one of its key and most controversial figures -- Charles Lummis.

Writer and editor of the LA Times, avid collector and preservationist, Indian rights activist, and founder of LA’s first museum, – The Southwest – Lummis’s genius and idiosyncratic personality captured the ethos of an era and a region. There is a KCET ARTBOUND documentary about Charles Lummis called Charles Lummis: Reimagining the American West.

Lummis died on November 25, 1928 from brain cancer. Renaissance man Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859 – 1928) designed and built his Highland Park home over a period of some 13 years beginning in 1897, doing much of the labor himself. Artbound revisits early Los Angeles to explore one of its key and most controversial figures: Charles Fletcher Lummis. A sweet hour-long film on a … The one-hour documentary, Charles Lummis: Reimagining the West, …

Because he was larger than life, Lummis painted himself a corner into which he has been placed by posterity. It can be found on YouTube and it’s 55 minutes. In this new season, Artbound travels back to pre-industrial Los Angeles to explore one of its key and most controversial figures – Charles Lummis. With Huell Howser.